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History 350: American Radicalism

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Notes: 1. Papers are due at class time on today (March 2). Late papers should be brought to my office, 331 McKenzie. Write the time and date you’re submitting a late paper on the front of it and slide it under my door if I’m not there. No late paper accepted after Friday, March 11, 5 p.m.
2. Make sure your paper is securely stapled together and that your name is on it.
3. Essay questions and instructions for the final exam will be ready and online early in the week of March 7.

 I. A (very) short history of American Labor Unions
        A. Knights of Labor
        B. American Federation of Labor: Formed 1886
1. Trade (skilled craft) unions
2. Politics: “Reward your friends and punish your enemies.”
3. Organized labor as “the business organization of the working people of this country”

Gompers: “Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.”

C. Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies): Founded 1905—“One Big Union”

III. 1877: Revolt on the Railroads Website on the 1877 strikes Another strike exhibit

IV. Haymarket and the First American Red Scare (Link to site on Haymarket) (Link to "Famous Trials" Site on Haymarket)
(Link to "The Dramas of Haymarket" site) 

A. Anarchism and Marxism in Gilded Age America

(Link to mega-site on anarchist history/theory)

B. Chicago and Its Workers

C. Eight Hour Day Movement

Terence Powderly, Knights of Labor                      Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor

Railroad Power Threatens American Workers, 1877

1877 Strike Scenes from a Popular Magazine